Paper Mache Easter Basket

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Hey guys! I hope your first day of Spring is going perfectly and the weather is nice where you are. The weather warmed up way too fast here in Florida if I do say so myself. Anyway, today I have a really fun DIY for you guys. Easter is right around the corner and I liked the idea of a paper mache basket. I love how ours turned out to look like a cute little nest. This was very simple to do, and if you remember the Paper Mache Snowman from a couple months ago, this is done just about the exact same way.

First up, what you’ll need:

Flour

Water

Food coloring

Scissors

Yarn or Newspaper

Large Balloon

The first step you should protbably take is to clear a larger sized area for this particular craft. It can be a bit difficult to work around the balloon, so find somewhere you can easily walk around. Next, grab your balloon and secure it to a bowl somehow. I took a bit of my paste on my finger and rubbed it around the edge of the small bowl I set my balloon on. This helped hold it in place. I put the fat side down and started wrapping the yarn from the ‘top’.

To make your paste, start by adding a cup of flour to a mixing bowl. Slowly pour in your water and stir. Continue to add flour or water to get a good pasty consistency. There’s no wrong way to do this. Just use your judgement!

To color your paste, drop in whatever color food coloring you want to use and stir. You could always purchase colored yarn, but this paste will take away from the color of the yarn, so I found it’s best to just tint the mixture yourself.

Now, take a good amount of yarn and drop it into the paste. Be liberal and keep hold of one of the ends. Start wrapping in whatever pattern you’d like around the balloon. I chose to spiral around instead of the kind of ‘yarn ball’ look our snowman had.

Do this until you have wrapped the entire balloon. Do not wrap the part of the balloon that’s in the bowl. This will be the opening of your basket.

Let it dry overnight. I recommend two days total to ensure that everything is dried through. Once you’re sure it’s dry, gently pop your balloon and pull it out! You now have an adorable little basket for your kiddos this Easter!

As you can see, our basket is Disney Princess themed. We found all of this cute stuff at Walmart! Addie loves the Disney Princess fillable eggs and of course the dress up stuff. I kind of like doing little knick knacks and toys as opposed to candy in the girls baskets. Just because, we don’t really let them have much candy and it just sits in our cabinet. So I love that Walmart has so many options for fun stuff to add to the baskets this year.